Family Environment as Perceived by Youth: Gender Base

The family is the basic unit of a society to attribute with biological functions. It is the institution responsible for maintaining and building relationships among family members as well as with the community. The present study has carried out in Hisar district of Haryana state. For the study 200 adolescent i.e. 100 male and 100 female were taken between the age group of 16-18 years. Family Environment Scale developed by Bhatia and Chadha (1993) was used to assess home environment of the adolescent. Results of the study revealed that significant differences were noted between cohesion, acceptance, caring and control aspects of family environment. Results further revealed that girls had more cohesion and control environment as compare to boys whereas boys received more acceptance and caring from their family as compare to their counterparts.